What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Caurcas]

I think people are just starting to feel increasingly frustrated with every new post-Endwalker interview that releases showing how horribly conveyed a lot of the story's themes/messages were.

They've never had to do this much damage control in terms of trying to explain story points and their intent with certain writing choices that they felt players had "misinterpreted".

The bit about us being expected to find the Ancient culture "scary" was the most confusing by far as I've seen literally no one who walked away with that perspective regardless of whether or not they they took issue with Venat's actions.

I've largely loved XIV's story, but I really don't want it to continue going in a direction where the impressions we're getting from it are completely at odds with what the writers intended, especially when none of the prior expansions had such an issue.

While not scary, I found the ancient culture too decadent and self aggrandizing.